On tomorrow's episode of On the Air (our last show of 2018), we'll be discussing the reasons why you need to move off Windows Server 2008 and what your migration options are and how to convince management that this is the time to invest - after all, service ends January 2020. We want to know, will YOU be impacted by Windows Server 2008 EOL?

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Unfortunately, we still have a couple of server 2003 and numerous 2008. Been fighting the battle here to replace antiquated softwares that will not upgrade to newer server OS's. I have one that people are married to, that has not been in development or support since the guy moved to Canada 10+ years ago. There are numerous tools to replace it, but ......

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Unfortunately, we still have a couple of server 2003 and numerous 2008. Been fighting the battle here to replace antiquated softwares that will not upgrade to newer server OS's. I have one that people are married to, that has not been in development or support since the guy moved to Canada 10+ years ago. There are numerous tools to replace it, but ......

Whew, makes me feel better to read that we are not alone with this scenario. Luckily, I don't think we have to fight for funding to upgrade, but a fight to get motivation from others to do so!

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SBS 2008 here. Not R2. Been off of Exchange for about two years now but still need to get rid of SBS. Plans are on the way but going through an ERP investigation and future change at the same time so I want to size my VM host appropriately before I commit to anything. I'm going to port everyone over to a new domain at that time because I'm using old best practices (using a .local domain for production) and lots of leftover SBS stuff. My 2019 is going to be busy since I've got mostly Windows 7 desktops I need to upgrade before 2020 and everyone is running on Office 2010 which ends support October 2020. I'm hyperventilating just thinking about everything!

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Used to be all we ran on was two physical 2008 servers. Trashed those suckers a year ago for a new 2016 server running HyperV. Split up all the functions of the old two physical servers into about 8 VMs. Sooo much cleaner. Those two physical servers were upgraded as well and one is a backup host, the other is just for archive storage

EOL means very little where I work. We still have Windows 98SE, Windows XP and Server 2003R2, not to mention a couple of Server 2008R2 servers.

Same here, for 2008 and XP. We have a legacy application that has a server piece (2008) and a client piece (XP) that we have to keep up and running. We've virtualized the XP box, and may virtualize the 2008 server, just so we are hardware independent.

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Unfortunately, we still have a couple of server 2003 and numerous 2008. Been fighting the battle here to replace antiquated softwares that will not upgrade to newer server OS's. I have one that people are married to, that has not been in development or support since the guy moved to Canada 10+ years ago. There are numerous tools to replace it, but ......

2008 was a big leap over 2003, and while 2003 evolved into a solid platform it always seemed like a work in progress.

2008 will be the last of the decent interfaces in my book before Microsoft hired Martha Stewart to design their interface. Trying to RDP into 2012 from win8, or another 2012 box resulted in those stupid metro start icons over lapping in the lower left corner giving you about 2 pixels to click on the right one. Very, very annoying. R2 was a breath of fresh air.

Then we had Dell shipping OEM 2008 servers with 40GB system partitions so they filled up after a few SP cycles.

Can't say as I'll miss 2008 SBS "it's a bird, it's a plane it shockingly boots!. The 4Gb log file size limit was always a treat. You always prayed when you rebooted those things but they chugged along.